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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:19:31AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > I for one would enjoy the clean-feel of Python in initscrit composition. |
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> > That said, I would miss the very "Unix atmospherics" of awk and sed |
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> > and the run-time interactivity of the shell scripting (I mean, it's |
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> > potential for shorthand notation). |
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> As most init scripts are essentially nobrainer oneliners, I believe using |
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> anything but sh is overkill. In the cases where something special is required |
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> it is very well possible to use python/any other language either embedded or |
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> instead of the standard interpreter. (You could even make init scripts in c) |
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I don't know.. Python has this great feature that sh does not: it byte |
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compiles its scripts and will execute the pre-compiled one if it doesn't |
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have to do anything else. If everything required to boot a Gentoo system |
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were done in Python thusly, it'd boot pretty fast. (This I consider a |
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very worthwhile goal!) |
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@×××.org> Only l33t on Thursdays |
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<stu> apt: !bugs |
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<apt> !bugs are stupid |
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<dpkg> apt: are stupid? what's that? |
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<apt> dpkg: i don't know |
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<dpkg> apt: Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... |
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<apt> i already had it that way, dpkg. |
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